POW diaries - Captain Percival Lowe, item 156
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had some gentlemanly instincts. Thus on a walk if no one
wished to speak to him & it was unlikely they did.- he was
quite satisfied to walk by himself. He was very consciencious
He came with another not a bad kind broad minded, but
he was out when the French escaped & soon left. Consul
went to the front in the summer 1916 followed by a new sort.
He was always in the camp, always nosing about. On
walks wanted ... to be talked to. Always [insert] seemed to [/insert] want
edto be friendly. But he parted to find the perpetrators of
the tunnel & he left. He was followed by a person
hideously uglu very sluvenly , all body, short legs did not
see him long enough to form an opinion on him. At
any rate he was not always round the camp.
As to parcels- our parcels were fetched from the station by
the Guard in a handcart & were issued as a rule
promptly. For this a charge of 10 pps & 5 pps for a very little
one such as a box of cigarettes was made. This went as
backscheesh to the guard. This imposition was knocked
on the head in the summer of 1916. The contents were compley
examined. One was not allowed to have the paper or the
box. All books were taken away & sent to Osnabrack to
be censored - this book as a rule 4 weeks- but in some
cases much longer. It was however possible to evade a
certain amount of searching & as a rule the Germans
in this office were reasonable . I missed quite a lot of
parcels from England- but whether they were looted in
Germany I dont know. Occasionally a parcel would
arrive damaged. This was shown with a X on the list
put up. Then you would be lucky if you received half
the original contents. In the autumn of 16 new regulations
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70.
had some gentlemanly instincts. Thus on a walk if no one
wished to speak to him & it was
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